Nataraj Ks

Summary

21 years of software product management and service delivery experience in product MNC, start-up, and large software services companies. In the last few years, the focus is on delivering innovative solutions for high growth, emerging economies using frugal engineering techniques. Managed large multi locale projects, mentored, and built highly effective teams and individual contributors. Successfully incubated products and solutions in diverse business domains like m-health, agriculture, transportation, telecom and public services
At present, my area of focus is creating digital business service offering for emerging economies using frugal engineering techniques.Specialties: Digital Business Services, Frugal and Reverse Innovation, Operations/Product Management, Software architecture, CMMI based software development process, distributed computing, sensor based telemetry platforms, Location based services, Personal lifestyle and rural healthcare application domains, Network and Element management

Work History

Work History

Designer

Designed and developed the database and HA modules (C, 4GL, Unix). Proposed a novel design which cut the paging response time to 2 seconds from 20 seconds.Successfully installed, migrated the existing subscribers and did a live system cut over for Mercury Paging, London with no downtime.

Functional area representative for SEI-CMM, where Motorola India got the world’s first CMM Level 5 certification.

2000 - 2002

Architect

Led the design, development and deployment of Packet Data network Operations and Maintenance high availability (HA) subsystem for Tu-Ka operator, Japan. Project voted as the best for Cycle Time Reduction initiative in Motorola S/W group.(team size 25)

Jul 1985 - Feb 1990

B.E

Portfolio

End to End System Solutions

Extensible collection of new, third party, and open source software modules, libraries, frameworks, and support tools to rapidly deploy production quality application servers used in the management of wireless devices and sensors across disparate networks. This platform has been used in many verticals shown in the diagram

Connected Vehicle

An architecture increase efficiency and traffic flow and brings the safety benefits of technology to every driver on the road.